The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared on Sunday that no political parties have the right to analyze the Bimodal Voter Registration Systems (BVAS).
The INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of, the Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, stated this on Channels Television’s program, Sunday Politics.
He said: “As you are aware, we are reconfiguring the BVAS for purposes of the governorship and state assembly elections, and any BVAS that was used for the presidential and National Assembly elections that do not push to the accreditation backend, the data relating to the conduct of the presidential and National Assembly elections will not be reconfigured.
“In fact, the BVAS will not allow itself to be reconfigured or reset if the entire data is not pushed to the accreditation backend.
“I’m sure that by Tuesday when we hope to complete the resettling of the BVAS for the purposes of the governorship and state assembly elections, the results in all the places where elections were conducted would have been pushed to the accreditation backend.”
However, Okoye insisted that no political party would be permitted to examine the BVAS or the voters’ biometrics.
Recall that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Labour Party had last week demanded the resignation of the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, over alleged irregularities in the election.
The parties rejected the INEC declaration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the winner of the election and vowed to challenge the decision in court.
